Rewrite 1 level of url directory - .htaccess

I'm looking to rewrite the first directory of a url string and have the rest of the request still work.
Eg: I want it so when a user clicks the link for : /products/category/item.php
it actually grabs the file of : /shop/category/item.php But still shows as /products/category/item.php as the URL
This will be dynamic so it should be something like /products/$ /shop/$1 I'm guessing.

You do not need mod_rewrite. when to avoid mod_rewrite.
Mapping url directories to file directories is a basic functionnality of Apache handled by the mode mod_alias (which is quite certainly already present for you).
So basically you have the Alias and AliasMatch directives. In your case the first one is enough:
Alias /products/ /path/to/web/document/root/shop/
The mapping is done only server-side so the url seen by the end user is never modified.

Try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^products/(.*) shop/$1 [L]

Enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^products/(.+)$ /shop/$1 [L,NC]

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htaccess make additional (hidden) request in background

I want a script on my server to excecute whenever there is a certain string found in the GET parameter. However I dont want the user to notice any of this as the server should serve the requested page like usual.
Is this possible?
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} matchthis
# Make hidden request
Enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^foo=bar(&|$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^matchthis/?$ %{REQUEST_URI}?foo=bar [L,QSA,NC]
This rule is adding a query parameter foo=bar if requested URI is /matchthis. This change will be hidden from the user since I'm not using R flag here hence it is an internal forward instead of an external redirect.

Is this .htaccess rewrite even possible?

My co-worker is proposing a .htaccess rewrite rule to implement on our system. I'm not even sure if it's possible, and I want someone more educated than me on the subject to verify.
Here's the URL currently:
http://cms.phasesolutions.ca/themes/Default/page.php?slug=home
Here's how he wants it to show up:
http://cms.phasesolutions.ca/pages/home/
Is that possible? (where the variable for "?slug=", and the "Default" folder, are subject to change, depending which theme they're accessing and what slug they're specifying)
Let me know,
thanks
Posting a solution in case you need starting point.
Enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
# handles /Default/home/ to /themes/Default/page.php?slug=home
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$2.php -f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /themes/$1/$2.php?slug=home [L,QSA]

htaccess - rewrite URL to make querystring nice

I have a site with a folder, and a htaccess file within that folder. For the index.php file within that folder, I want to rewrite the querystring for a certain parameter, so that typing in this URL:
www.example.com/myfolder/myparameter
Behaves like this (ie makes $_GET['parameter'] = 'myparameter' in my code)
www.example.com/myfolder/index.php?parameter=myparameter
I have looked at many questions on StackOverflow, but have not managed to get this working. My code so far is
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ %0 [QSA]
But that just isn't working at all.
Please use this code
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) index\.php?parameter=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (^.*/)([^/]+)$ $1index\.php?parameter=$2 [L,QSA]
update
sorry use #somasundaram's answer. Per-directory .htaccess rewrite rules lose the directory prefix:
When using the rewrite engine in .htaccess files the per-directory prefix (which always is the same for a specific directory) is automatically removed for the RewriteRule pattern matching and automatically added after any relative (not starting with a slash or protocol name) substitution encounters the end of a rule set. See the RewriteBase directive for more information regarding what prefix will be added back to relative substitutions.
(from the apache docs)

Remove file extensions using htaccess in subdirectories

I'm trying to remove file extensions with htaccess, so www.mysite.com/file.php becomes www.mysite.com/file.
I'm using the following code in the .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
So far, so good. Where it falls down is in subfolders: www.mysite.com/subfolder/file.php
becomes www.mysite.com/file.
I've tried uploading another .htaccess file in the subfolder, but it still does the same. It feels like it should be really simple, but I'm struggling...can anyone help me out? Thanks!
Edit Sorry folks, should have said - the file is in a subfolder like so:
www.mysite.com/folder/subfolder/file.php
The .htaccess file is in /folder, the URL changes to this format:
www.mysite.com/subfolder/file
Apologies for misleading.
This is the rule you'll need to hide .php extension. This goes into your .htaccess in the DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
# To internally redirect /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.php [L]
You shouldn't be using rewrite rules for this. Apache has built-in option explicitly for doing what you're trying to do, called MultiViews, and that's what you should be using:
The effect of MultiViews is as follows: if the server receives a request for /some/dir/foo, if /some/dir has MultiViews enabled, and /some/dir/foo does not exist, then the server reads the directory looking for files named foo.*, and effectively fakes up a type map which names all those files, assigning them the same media types and content-encodings it would have if the client had asked for one of them by name. It then chooses the best match to the client's requirements.
Just add Options MultiViews to your .htaccess, and make sure that AllowOverride is properly configured.
A guess in the wild
Try
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

PHP page access without extension and variable

How can I create a PHP page system that we access without .php extension and without ?page= variable?
There's a simple exemple:
http://www.exemple.com/portfolio/1
Instead of:
http://www.exemple.com/portfolio.php?id=1
It would be great for me because I'm a web designer and this is a thing I never did. So it would be good to know this! Also I will use this in my website.
you would need the following in your .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*[^/])/?$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%1.php -f
RewriteRule .+ %1.php [QSA,L]
You're looking for mod_rewrite.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/profile$ /account.php?profile [L]
Create .htaccess file in your web root and enter following.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^account/([0-9]+)$ account.php?id=$1
OR
See mod_rewrite, in case URL rewriting, if you trying to do such.
You can use multiviews, or better and more used: mod_rewrite module from apache. It can be via a .htaccess file where you create rewrite rules like
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)?(.*)$ /$1.php?Action=$2 [L]

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